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Reasonings on Community, Part V: Learning in Community
The book of Community includes practical ideas for helping a community work, like the itinerary, which requires the community members to comment on a blog. The purpose of the itinerary is to incite people to conversation, to blend their minds with each … Continue reading
Reasonings on Community, Part IV: On Productive Autonomy
Epicurus understands that the only way to be able to live outside of the political battles in the city is to gain productive autonomy. The Book of Community discusses at one point how communal models help to manage the deficiencies … Continue reading
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Tagged autarchy, autonomy, entrepreneurial, productivity, self-sufficiency
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Reasonings on Community, Part III: Ceremony
… That is why each community that wants to affirm its autonomy also has to face the creation of a ceremoniousness of its own. In his last will, Epicurus instituted the celebration of the 20th of every month among his … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th, celebrations, ceremony, community, indias, ritual, seasons
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Reasonings on Community, Part II: Community Vs. Polis
If one wanted to inquire into what is most opposite to friendship, and the most fruitful of aversions, we would see simply that it is politics. – Philodemus Las Indias argues that community exists for its own sake, and not for … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, community, libertarian, libertarianism, politics, state, statism
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The Autarkist 